Improved meat-cutter



` To all ohom it may concern:

*universale or NEWYo'uK, N. v.`

4il'rcttcrs PatentNo. 104,363, (lated func 14,1870.

l f y IMPnovsn MEAT-GUTTER.

` The Schedule referred tovin these LettersPatent and making part of the same. a

l Bc ivt vknown that I, HENRY SEIB, of the city of New York, l1n the county of New York and State of `.New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement lnMachines for Cutting Pork and Me'at; .and

` "Vl I hereby declare the following to be a full and clear .3 descrlption thereof', in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which-.-` i l Figure 1 is a vertical sectionfof `my invention. Figure 2 1s a plan view, the cover B having been `removed, and part of the revolving table D having been broken away in order to show one of the cyl- C t inders, having vertical cutters or knives arranged around its circumference, andv one ofthe grooved` rollers. i

rThis invention `relates to machines for cutting pork g and meat, andis intended for cutting pork into small pieces or cubcs,of `proper size for the subsequent operations of lreducing it to sausage-meat.

My machine consists of i a'fhorizontal revolving ta ble, working within a stationary box, in whose cover l are two or more hoppers `throughwhich the pork or `meat is introduced to the cutters.`

0n the surface of the revolving table, next to its outer edge, are horizontal revolving cutters or knives,

* xwhich, as well as the other cutters, are put in motion by the revolution of the table.

As the table passes beneath the hoppers,L the hori- "zontalgcutters successively out slices from. the bottom j "of the-pieces of pork which protrude from the hoppers, and the slices drop down into Aan annular chanendwise downk through a `transverse opening in the.

nel formed in4 the top of the table,rand pass thence table, when they4 comev in contact with cutters or iknives arranged vertically around a revolving cylinder,- which cut the slices lengthwisezinto strips, which 'pass below the cylinder, 4when thcyjare cut transversely i i into small square pieces or cubes by a horizontal knife `or cutter, which revolves directly below the cylinder,

and saidpubes fall into the lower part of the'box.

i `ThefletteipA designates a stationary box, which g incloses the. movable parts of my machine, and which l has in its-cover B two or more hoppers, C, for feeding the blocks of pork or meat to be operated upon.

D Visa table or frame, which carries thecutting-apparatus, and towhich rotary motion is given by applying power toa vertical shaft, E,`ixed to the'centcr i ofthe table, and passing dowhthrough it, and having its step in the center of a circularjplattorm, F, ar-

`,rangedin the interior of the box,

revolrng knife-cylinders J J, which shafts tf K The upper edge of 4this `platform is provided with i beveled cogs G, which are engagedby beveled pinions H H, fixed onV the inner ends of the shafts'I I `Vofthe lll bearings formed in the sides of boxes K K, arranged and fixed to the bottom of the table on oppositesides of the shaft E. Y

When the table is rotated the pinions H Hare caused to revolve by reason of their engagement with the cogs G, thereby giving motion to the knife-cylinders J J, whose knives L L, &c., are arranged around them at right angles to the axes of the cylinders, and at such distances from each other as will enable thern` to out the slices of pork into strips of the required width.

Upon the cylinder-shafts I I are fixed gear-wheels M M, which engage pinions N N fixed on the ends of shafts O O, which carry groovedrollers P P, arranged opposite to the knife-cylinders in suchal manner that the knives` of said cylinders runrin the grooves of the rollers, the faces ofthe cylinders and rollers being arranged at such a distance apart as to cause them to actas feeding-rollers to the slices of lpork which pass4 i down between them, as hereinafter described.

On the under side o f cover B is a xedl -cog-wheel,

l.S S, which alsocarry toothed wheels T T that engage Awith the teeth of piuions U U, fixed on vertical shafts VV, which extend through ,the boxes LKIK, and through the Vtop ofthe table D, each of said shafts V V having. two revolving horizontal cutters, whereof one, W, is fixed on their upper ends so as to work above the table D, and the other, X, on Atheirlower ends, so as to work below the boxes K.

The table D has an annular channel, Y, within its outer edge, over which v,channel are arrangedv the up-v per horizontal cutters W,Vthe hoppers in cover B being arranged over'said cutters.

Across the said channel Y, infront of the shafts of` thc cutters W, I make transverse slots or openings, Z, in Vthe table, in such a position as to coincide with the spaces between the knife-cylinders J and'groovcd rollers 1,' and I raise ledges at' on the inner edge of each of said-slots Z, so as to arrest the slices as they aresevered by thccutters W from the blocks of pork or meat in the hoppers, and cause them to descend cndwisc through said slots so as .to be presented. in a proper manner to the action of the knife-cylinders J, whose 'knives L run through slots made-in stripping or clearing plates l d, which project from the top and bottom ofthe boxes' K Ii in such a manner aste prevent-the salt 0r Ineatfroin clinging to the cylinders.

The bottoms of the boxes K, in. which the knifecylinders revolve, have transverse slots b cut through bottom cutters X, which out the strips as they emerge from the boxes transversely int-o small squares or The 'channel Y of the table D has raised edges e 0, whiclikeep the pork or meat that projects from the hopper in proper position in the channel for the action of the cutters W, the pork or meat inthe hoppers, after passing one cutter, falling down again into the channel so as to be ready, for the action of the next cutter NV.

What I claimlas new, and desire to secure by `Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the revolving table D', carrying three sets of cutters, one `0r slicing pork or meat, lone for dividing the slices into strips, and one for cut-ting the strips into squares or cubes, respectively, with stationary hoppers arranged above the ta- 'ble, snbstantially as described.

April, 1870.

HENRY SEIB.

Witnesses: C. WAHLERS,

J. VAN SANTVORD. 

